An awesome sis, an awesome store, a surprise discount & another silly GPS

Last week my sis Chris was visiting from North Carolina. She and her hubby, Dan, stopped to have dinner with Andrew, Cindy and I. Had some yummy stuff at Cracker Barrel then those 4 took off for a local brew pub. I had to go home and rest for my big day the next day.

I headed up to Winamac in the morning. (Thanks, Dan, for pointing out to Chris that morning to me means any time before 11:59. You know me so well!) The 3 of us plus stepmom, Carol, visited then headed up to Toto for lunch. Had that yummy fish! Dan gives kudos to the tenderloin. Richards Cafe in Toto - worth the trip! Chris and I then moved on to our traditional "Sister time". We headed up to Laporte to a cross stitch store I have been wanting to visit called House of Stitches. OH MY GOSH! What an awesome store! You could spend days in there looking at everything. Amazingly, I mainly focused on Halloween patterns and went through probably 100 or so. Chose one that is just adorable! Got my fabric and Chris helped me find my colors. She got an adorable skeleton fob kit. What an AWESOME store! I will be back for sure!

Chris is an antiquer. I used to be moreso but am trying to get away from collections as I prepare to retire. (So I claim.) We went to an antique mall in an old department store. It is full of nooks and crannies and fun to look at all the different things. Neither of us found anything so we decided to find a Goodwill. Closest one on the GPS was about 20 miles away so we headed there. I found kits (nyah, nyah, Ann!) and Chris found a neat jack o lantern and a cat candle holder. Got up to the register and found out they give a senior disocunt of 10% EVERY DAY! WOW!!!

Pam did not want us to get lost so had loaned me her GPS. Jimmy(ie?) Incredibly, Jimmy did NOT ONCE tell us to make a u-turn! I didn't think GPS's were capable of not saying that! She did have to recalculate quite a bit especially since she couldn't seem to tell which way my truck was facing and I'd start down the road the opposite direction. She got REALLY lost trying to find the cross stitch store! I am so glad I looked at the web site and read their tips for finding it!

Thanks, Chris, for listening to my sad story, for patting me on the back when I cried and for caring. I needed that! Love you, sis!